To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written after June 20, 1916Published:First published in 1964 in CollectedWorks, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

      pages544b-545a.Translated:Martin Parker and Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive

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(1)Weshall write to Grisha that he should offer the printer to
publishpart(or an instalment) ofSbornik
Sotsial-Demokrata. This would be sensible. We could select for it
articles passable by the censor (from the French point of view). I would
like you to write him about it too.

Arethey preparing a collection of their own?

(2)Noanswer should be given to Radek’s question about the
cause of the
			       Bruch[1]with Bukharin and Lyalin. Must agree on it first. Have you a copy of the
C.O. Editorial Board’s letter (end of 1915 to Bukharin &
Co.)?[3]

Tohide behind Yuri on the question of self-determination is downright
meanness.

(3)Lettersfrom Russia (from the C.C. Bureau) say that Bukharin &
Co. are trying to establishtheir own contactswith the P.C. over
the head of the
Bureau.[4]Fine fellows, eh? They not only “inform” Radek, as you
write, but do worse things.

(4)Areply has come fromNeue Zeit: freie
			      Exemplare[2]are forbidden. I shall subscribe for 1/4 year.

N.B.|||(5) What subjects are you taking for the Russian edition?

(6)Iam waiting for your reply as toexactlyhow much
material there now is forSbornik.

(7)Howstrange, Grisha and Varin writing aboutKommunistand
notSbornik!

(8)Whatis that article “Bruderorgan” inBerner Tagwacht.

Pleasesend it!!

Salut,Lenin

[1]Break.—Ed.

[2]Freecopies.—Ed.

[3]TheEditorial Board ofSotsial-Demokratsent a letter to
Pyatakov, Bosh and Bukharin in the winter of 1915 declaring that they would
not participate inKommunistas they could not assume Party
responsibility for co-editors who showed an un-Party attitude to the
business.

[4]Pyatakovand Bosh wrote to the Central Committee Bureau Abroad
demanding that their group be officially recognised as a special group
unsubordinated to the C.C. Bureau Abroad and that it be granted the right
of independent contact with the Russian section of the C.C. and the right
to publish leaflets and other literature. This being refused, they
nevertheless made an attempt to establish contact with the Bureau of the
C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in Russia over the head of the C.C. Bureau Abroad.